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Updated: 2:54 p.m. Friday, March 8, 2013 | Posted: 2:43 p.m. Friday, March 8, 2013

Armed street robbery suspect arrested

Lamar Taylor
Lamar Taylor

PITTSBURGH —

Police arrested a 19-year-old man accused of robbing victims at gunpoint Tuesday in the city’s Corliss neighborhood.

Authorities were called to Universal Street and Fuller Way about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday for the report of an armed robbery.

The victims told officers that they were walking near Universal Street when a man approached them with a gun and robbed them.

According to police, the victims said the robber, later identified as Lamar Taylor, fled on foot on Fuller Way.

After a brief search, police eventually arrested Taylor, 19, nearby and recovered the stolen items.

Taylor was charged with robbery and transported to the Allegheny County Jail.

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